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NewsOctober 26, 2011

Toyota Suspends Overtime Shifts in North American Plants Due to Thailand Floods

TORRANCE, CA – Flooding in Thailand is affecting automotive suppliers and manufacturing facilities in the region, and Toyota announced its U.S. production will be affected.

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NewsSeptember 30, 2011

Toyota Localizing Manufacturing With Start of Four-Cylinder Engine Production at Alabama Plant

HUNTSVILLE, AL - The four-cylinder expansion at TMMAL allows the Alabama facility to supply engines to every Toyota vehicle assembly plant in North America except the new facility in Blue Springs, Mississippi, which is scheduled to start production this fall.

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NewsSeptember 15, 2011

Chrysler, GM Plants Slow Production Due to Carpet and Floormat Shortage

BLOOMSBURG, PA - A shortage of carpets and floormats, due to a Pennsylviana supplier being affected by flooding, has caused a production slowdown at a number of North American auto assembly plants.

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NewsSeptember 13, 2011

Toyota’s North American Production Returns to 100 Percent

TORRANCE, CA - The automaker said production will be 15-percent greater in the fourth quarter than what the company had forecast prior to the earthquake and tsunami.

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NewsSeptember 1, 2011

Ford Plans 9% Production Boost in Fourth Quarter

DEARBORN, MI – In Ford’s August sales update the company said it plans to produce 9 percent more vehicles for the North American market in the fourth quarter of 2011, for a total of 645,000 units.

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NewsSeptember 1, 2011

Toyota Says Inventories to Grow in September for First Time Since Japan Quake

TORRANCE, CA - The company’s Jeff Bracken, Vice President of sales for the Toyota Division, said most of the company’s North American plants are running at maximum operating rates (including overtime).

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NewsJune 17, 2011

GM Says Demand for Four-Cylinder Engines Driving Plant Investments

DETROIT – General Motors said that the additional demand for Ecotec four-cylinder engines in a range of its vehicles is behind the company’s $65 million investment in plants in New York and Tennessee.

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NewsApril 12, 2011

Toyota Adjusting North American Production

ERLANGER, KY - Over the next few weeks, Toyota's North American vehicle plants will operate on a reduced schedule, with production suspended on April 15, 18, 21, 22, and 25.

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NewsJanuary 19, 2010

Toyota Plans 1 Million Hybrids by 2011

TOKYO - Toyota Motor Corp plans to increase global production of gas-electric hybrid cars to 1 million units in 2011, twice the volume of last year.

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NewsJanuary 19, 2010

Toyota Plans 1 Million Hybrids by 2011

TOKYO - Toyota Motor Corp plans to increase global production of gas-electric hybrid cars to 1 million units in 2011, twice the volume of last year.

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